Dry Season

Lawrence S. Cunningham February 13, 2012 - 11:40am

Behind the forty-day preparation for Easter known as Lent (the word actually means “springtime”) is the image of the desert. The Bible describes the forty-year desert sojourn of the Chosen People as preparation for entrance into the Promised Land. Elijah the prophet and later John the Baptist were both desert dwellers. And the Gospel of Mark tells us that Jesus was driven by the Spirit “into the desert. He was in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan;...

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